Anand’s Blog

Usually I and the act of smoking do not get along very well. But for the past few days, as I suddenly realize, it is not very hard to find a smoke not too far from me. And it is not that I crave for it or anything like that, but with a cigarette ever [...]

From Boston News:
The makers of Japan’s favorite instant ramen noodles will soon be airing a commercial that’s truly out of this world.
Starting next month, Nissin Food Products Co. will film a promotional spot on the International Space Station for Cup Noodle, featuring a sales pitch by a hungry Russian cosmonaut.
The commercial will air in Japan [...]

Three (almost four now) straight all-nighters, with only a few hours of sleep thrown in between the days, and yet I am unable to sleep. If someone was really keen on looking out for ’signs’, I wonder what would this count as?
But with assignments taking their toll on me and with my procratinatinating streak, in [...]

I cant believe you are all still here. I have been way too busy the past week and now with things cooling off a bit, I surely will be blogging more regularly.For now, I need to catch some sleep…

Not often do I post two entries here in quick succession that completely stump me. The earlier one about Mozilla Browsers being more vulnerable than IE and now this whole thing about the email address being case sensitive.
New York Times says:
The domain-name portion of the e-mail address – the part after the @ sign – [...]

According to a Symantec Report, Mozilla Browsers are MORE vulnerable than Internet Explorer.
Well…

[Redefining] software engineering professionalism with the following objectives:

a professional programmer picks a worthwhile problem to attack; we are engineers, not scientists, and therefore should attempt solutions that will solve real user problems
a professional programmer has a dedication to the end-user experience; most computer applications built these days are Web applications built by small [...]

As I read this, I’ll have to say that it cannot get any more innovative(weird?) than a rent-a-guest agent.

And just as this hiatus comes to an end, I’d like to let all know that this was not a result of mundanity. Things were moving at quite a pace and yet, somehow didn’t fall into the category of weblog content.
India finally managed to win something at Cricket. Defeating Zimbabwe by an innings and 90 [...]

I have been doodling during classes all through my high school and the habit has hardly betrayed me in the University. And yet, ever so cruelly, none of my doodles seem to have made ANY impact at all, especially when you compare them with the ones by Gates at Davos or by Ofir at Israel!
And, [...]